Mitie Must Fall

Student-led campaign against Mitie Group PLC
Based at the University of Sussex. Get Mitie off our campus! In-source the staff!

[Mitie Must Fall @MitieMustFall]

Hello new followers!

This 🧵will give you a bit of info about this campaign, what we're trying to do, and how you can support.

Links, all sources and more info available at bottom of thread.

[Emma Pearson (she/her) @Emmafaypearson]

I wanted to send one final message to the University Executive Group & the Vice Chancellor Prof Sasha Roseneil.

As I crossed the stage at my graduation, I wore a sign saying ‘MITIE OFF CAMPUS’. The @MitieMustFall fight will continue until MITIE IS OFF CAMPUS.

[Corporate Watch @CorpWatchUK]

"It’s pretty much certain that most people in the UK will shop at, or use services that help keep Mitie’s profit margins up."

In 2022, Mitie’s record revenue of £4 billion created an operating profit of £167m.

Read our profile here: https://t.co/G80TcdfK0o

[Sussex UCU @sussexucu]

Our students are standing shoulder to shoulder with us. Invite your friends, invite your families, invite your pets! We'll see you on the picket line!

#OneOfUsAllOfUs #EnoughIsEnough #ucuRISING

[Mitie Must Fall @MitieMustFall]

**BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON**

You may notice we've been pretty quiet on Twitter recently - we've been busy doing lots of work behind the scenes, but some big announcements will be coming soon...

[Mitie Must Fall @MitieMustFall]

@SussexUni Are you happy for the CEO of a company you’re contracted with to speak about #Manston and #Migrants with so little regard, and unapologetically use such hateful terminology such as ‘illegal’?

We thought you were a proud @UniofSanctuary?

@mitie #MitieMustFall

[The No To Hassockfield (Derwentside) Campaign @No2Hassockfield]

(1) Last week members of the Action Against Detention & Deportations network (a coalition of groups from across the UK) visited @mitie’s office in Manchester to send a very clear message.

We wrote a letter to @PhilBentleyCEO, the CEO of #Mitie and received the following reply:

[Emma Pearson (she/her) @Emmafaypearson]

Today we went to the #Mitie office in Manchester to hand a letter to @PhilBentleyCEO about Mities involvement in #Manston, and wider profiteering from the suffering of migrants.

@SussexUni are you still content in your SEF partnership with @mitie? 🤨🧐

@MitieMustFall

[Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS) @sdetsup]

We need to keep up the pressure, it's time to #ShutDownManstonCamp and stand with every detainee fighting for their freedom. Please help us raise funds to cover transport costs for a demo at Manston Camp this Sunday! https://t.co/Yal0Ba9Yk3

[Mitie Must Fall @MitieMustFall]

@SussexUni 😶

#Mitie is playing a HUGE role in the concentration camp that is #Manston. 4000 people in a space designed for 1000. Outbreaks of disease. People sleeping on cardboard. Children shouting for help and freedom.

@PhilBentleyCEO you should be ashamed of your company.

[Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS) @sdetsup]

The camp is highly securitised and isolated - surrounded by fences, police and security personnel.

Mitie - known for managing violent detention centres - runs the camp, while other companies such as MCT - known for brutalising children in youth jails - provide security.

[Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS) @sdetsup]

Dozens of young children are being held at Manston detention camp in Kent.

Mothers, fathers, children and babies from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.

We went today and heard them chanting for their freedom.

This is persecution. FREE THEM AND CLOSE IT DOWN.

[Mitie Must Fall @MitieMustFall]

This is great, and hopefully the first of many.

Universities can, and must, divest our money from the border industry, and stop financing these terrible companies.

[People & Planet @peopleandplanet]

🎉HUGE VICTORY🎉UK UNIVERSITIES START TURNING THEIR BACKS ON THE BORDER INDUSTRY!

Cardiff Met has become the FIRST university 🌍 to divest from companies profiting from violence against people who move ✊

Now, let's make the #DivestBorders movement unstoppable. Here's how 👇🧵

[Helen O'Connor 💙 @HelenOConnorNHS]

Solidarity.. we are fighting @mitie in @StGeorgesTrust ..they don’t have any compassion for the human beings who work for them either @MitieMustFall

[SYMAAG @SYMAAG]

@HelenOConnorNHS @RMTunion @GMBSouthern Mitie don't just exploit migrant workers in the workplace, they profit from detaining them in immigration removal centres
#Derwentside #Hassockfield #EndDetention

[Mitie Must Fall @MitieMustFall]

@SussexUni these are who you send millions of pounds to.

Gonna come out publicly against them?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

An asylum seeker who was due on the UK's first deportation flight to Rwanda has claimed he was hit, kicked and pushed by security officers while he was held in detention.

The 25-year-old spoke exclusively to Sky's @JasonFarrellSky

https://t.co/8YK50byd3u

📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

[Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS) @sdetsup]

If you're based in Brighton, meet at Brighton station at 1pm on Sunday to travel to Brook House together, to show solidarity with those detained, and say no to deportations.

[Solidarity Detainee Support (SDS) @sdetsup]

STOP THE RWANDA FLIGHT!

Solidarity demo @ Brook House, Sunday 12th June, 3pm

Demo outside the Home Office, Monday 13th June, 5.30pm

#StopRwandaFlight
#EndtheHostileEnvironment

[GMB Southern Region @GMBSouthern]

Incredible march through Tooting today of our members on strike against the appalling treatment of them by private contractor @mitie at @StGeorgesTrust. Mitie Out Out Out!

[Campaign for Psych Abolition @CPAbolition]

all our love and solidarity to the legends at @NExclusions continuing to work for a better world that every kid deserves! fighting the violent systems people claim are caring always brings out criticisms from the biggest pussios - the best enemies to have! more power 🔥

[miaulement @miaulement]

@MitieMustFall racially minoritized migrants. As we stressed, this is something we all need to fight. You can join and support migrant-led campaigns like @unisnotborders to fight the twin scourge of hostile environment and marketization in universities, and (cont)